Overview

• Official statements released Tuesday said Jihad Kamal Salem Najjar was killed in a targeted operation carried out on August 10.
• The military identified Najjar as a Hamas military‑wing operative who infiltrated Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7 and took part in the abduction of Yarden Bibas.
• The action was conducted jointly by the IDF and the ISA/Shin Bet under the direction of the Southern Command and was described as a precise strike.
• Authorities stated they will continue pursuing those involved in the October 7 attacks.
• The outlets recount that Bibas’s wife, Shiri, and their sons Ariel, 4, and Kfir, 9 months, were killed in captivity in November 2023, that Bibas was freed on February 1, 2024, and that the family’s bodies were returned later that month.